---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to the assault of a firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or law enforcement officer."
description: "relative to the assault of a firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or law enforcement officer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 59"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 59 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Mannion"]
version_count: 0
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-23"
last_action: "2026-05-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed0ac4fd-ad8d-47f1-9e4f-c6692259a797"
source_url: "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_Status/advanced.aspx"
source_hash: "26791a263465b60ec2799090ea14a2d417415d15470e7db30e044273e8df2bdb"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire HB 59 (2026) — relative to the assault of a firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or law enforcement officer.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.


## Sponsors

- Dennis Mannion — primary (person)
- Daryl Abbas — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L Proulx — cosponsor (person)
- Stephen C. Pearson — cosponsor (person)
- Terry W Roy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-12-23** Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety HJ 2 P. 4 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22** Public Hearing: 01/31/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-02-12** ==RECESSED== Executive Session: 02/21/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-02-20** ==CONTINUED== Executive Session: 02/26/2025 10:00 am LOB 202-204
- **2025-03-03** Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0590h (Vote 9-7; RC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03** Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
- **2025-03-13** Amendment # 2025-0590h: AA DV 190-172 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 20
- **2025-03-13** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0590h: MA RC 196-179 03/13/2025 HJ 8 P. 20 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2025-03-19** Introduced 03/13/2025 and Referred to Judiciary; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Hearing: 04/03/2025, Room 100, SH, 01:45 pm; SC 15
- **2025-04-23** Committee Report: Rereferred to Committee, 05/01/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19
- **2025-05-01** Rereferred to Committee, MA, VV; 05/01/2025; SJ 11 `referral-committee`
- **2025-11-03** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-3083s, 01/07/2026, Vote 3-2; SC 46 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-07** Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-3083s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 01/07/2026; SJ 1 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2026-01-09** Committee Amendment # 2025-3083s, AA, VV; 01/07/2026; SJ 1
- **2026-04-09** House Concurs with Senate Amendment 2026-3083s (Rep. Roy): MA DV 199-155 04/09/2026 HJ 10 P. 8
- **2026-04-30** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-1557e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 04/23/2026); SJ 11 `amendment-passage`
- **2026-05-06** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2026-1557e: AA VV (in recess of) 04/23/2026 HJ 11
- **2026-05-11** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/07/2026); SJ 12 `enrolled`
- **2026-05-12** Enrolled (in recess of) 05/07/2026 HJ 12
- **2026-05-28** Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/22/2026; Chapter 79; eff.07/21/2026 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed0ac4fd-ad8d-47f1-9e4f-c6692259a797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).